Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

Free Contact Management / Roledex Software for Windows

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

A few years ago I wrote some contact management / Rolodex software for a friend. I went back to it today and created an installer for it and wanted to release it to the world. Download it now! Interested in the source code? It’s available on GitHub! http://github.com/jocull/ContactManagement

New Contact

New Contact

Main Interface

Main Interface

Detail Sheet

Detail Sheet

Program Options

Program Options

Birthday and Anniversary Alerts

Birthday and Anniversary Alerts

Zen Garden Farmer for Plants vs. Zombies

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Plants vs. Zombies is a great game. There’s lots to do, even after you beat the main game. There’s new games and puzzles to play, and things to buy. Money actually becomes a large part of the game later on, so having a good way to get money is important.

In my opinion, the Zen Garden is the easiest and most consistent way to get money if you have a decent sized garden. Purchasing Stinky the Snail makes collecting the coins and diamonds easier, but there is one critical problem: he’s narcoleptic. He’ll often take a snooze after just a couple minutes of collecting coins, meaning that you have to sit there and wake him up.

“Not fair!” I say. What if I wanted to take a nap? Can’t we take shifts? Apparently not, according to PopCap. So, I decided I needed something that would wake Stinky up, and along the way a few other features snuck in. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you… Zen Garden Farmer.

Garden Farmer works for you by taking control of the mouse and doing some of the more tedious tasks of taking care of your Zen Garden. Hopefully this video will help explain things.

So, feel like trying it out for yourself? Go ahead and grab it then! Interested in the source code? It’s shared on GitHub! http://github.com/jocull/ZenGardenFarmer

Download Garden Farmer now

and/or…

Join the discussion on the Steam forums

Update: I got bored and decided to add in a Whack-a-Zombie mode. It works for Beghouled Twist too as long as you have matches available. If you run out of matches you can just take over for a second to hit the “shuffle” button, then put it back on cruise control. Video here:

“tv2night” Goes Live

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

I applied for another Twitter account and created a small CRON job for it on my own server. Now you can follow Television Tonight and get tweets about one hour before your favorite shows come on the air.

Tweets (updates) are limited to 140 characters. In the space we have most of the important information. The format is concise, but useful:

[Show Name] s[Season #]e[Episode #] is starting on [Show's Network] in [minutes 'til air time] min! ([Time show starts] EST) Summary: [TinyURL to Episode Summary]

The tweet is measured before and after adding the summary. If the tweet is too long, the word “Summary: ” will be cut. If the entire link won’t fit it isn’t included at all, because having half of a URL doesn’t make much sense.

Interested in following? Check it out now: http://twitter.com/tv2night

Spore DRM Causes Creature Backlash

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

The creators of Spore tangled with the internet and got more than they asked for. Users around the world, ticked off about Spore’s DRM have began creating anti-DRM creatures to voice their opinions.

Read more from the original article.